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INDEX 



Sting. 4, 5, 6, 58, 144 ; development of, 



8, 9 

 Stinging, 98 ; by Calicurgus, 102 ; by 



Pompilidae, 104 ; by Sphex, 109 

 Stingless bees, 61 



Stink-gland, 257, 533 ; -vessel, 225 

 Stipes, 309 

 Stizinae, 123 

 Stomach, 320 

 Stomoxys ccdcitrans, 512 

 Stratiomyidae, 478 

 Stratiomys, 452 



Straus- Durckheim, on Melolontha, 198 

 Strawberries, eaten by beetles, 205 

 Streblidae, 521 

 Strepsiptera, 189, 298 f. 

 Sfreptqperas, 401 

 Stridulating organ, of Myrmica, 133 ; of 



Heterocerus, 243 ; of Passalus - larva, 



192 ; of Sima leviceps, 169 

 Stridulation, of ants, 134 ; of Corixa, 568 ; 



of Criocerides, 281 ; of Dynastides, 199; 



of Geotrupes, 195 ; of Ipides, 232 ; of 



Lomaptera, 200 ; of Longicorns, 287 ; of 



larva of Lucanus cervus, 194 ; of Mega- 



lopides, 282 ; of Melolontka-laxvz, 198 ; 



of Mutilla, 94 ; of Pelobius, 208 ; of 



Phonapate, 246 ; of Phyttomorpha, 548 ; 



of Praogena, 264 ; of Siagona, 206 ; of 



Trox, 195 

 Strigil, 568 



Striphnopterygidae, 376 

 Strongyhxjnatlms hiiberi, S. testaceus, 162 

 Strumigenys, 170 

 Style, 442' 

 Stylopidae, 298 

 Stylopised bees, 26 

 Stylops dalii, 299 

 Styx iitfernalis, 358, 340 

 Suana, 405 

 Subcostal nervure, 318 

 Submedian nervure, 318 

 Suboesopliageal ganglion, 320 

 Sucking-stomach, 311, 441* 

 Suction by Lepidoptera, 311 

 Suctoria, 526 

 Supericornia, 546 

 Swallow-flies, 519 

 Swarming of wasps. 70 n. 

 Swarms, "62, 65 67, 80, 135, 467, 505, 



584 

 Swift- moths, 396 

 Symbiosis, of ants and plants, 139 ; of 



bee and Acarid, 70. See also Ants'- 



nest Insects, and Association 

 Symbius blattarum, 269 

 Symphily, 183 

 Synecthry, 183 

 Synemon, 371 

 Synoeca cyanea, nest. 82 

 Syntelia westwoodi, 229 

 Synteliidae, 229 



Syntomidae, 339 n., 369, 388 

 Syntomis phegea, 390 

 Syringe, 535, 536 

 Syrphidae, 439, 498 f. 

 Systoechus areas, 489 

 Systropus crudelis, 489 



Tabanidae, 481, 492 



Tabanus, 482 ; T. dorsivitta, 482 



Tachinidae, 507, 514 



Tachysphex panzeri, 117 



Tachytes, 116 ; destroyer of, 275 : T. 



austral is, 113, 117 ; T. pectinipes, 117 

 Tachy tides, 116 

 Taenia, fleas as hosts of, 526 

 Tajuria diaeus, pupa, 357 

 Taleporia, 395 

 Taleporiidae, 430 

 Tanypezidae, 504 

 Taphroderides, 296 

 Tapinoma erraticum, 157 

 Tarantula-killer 105 

 Tarphius, 233 

 Tarsolepis, 383 



Taschenberg, on anatomy of flea, 523 n.. 

 Tascina, 372 

 Tea-plant bug, 562 

 Teara melanosticta, 408 

 Tegula. 71, 187, 307, 311, 312, 447 

 Tegmina, 539 

 Teleodont, 193 

 Telephorides, 21(8 

 Telmatophilus, 235 

 Temnochila coerulea, 232 

 Temnochilides, 233 

 Tenebrio molitor, 263 

 Tenebrionidae, 263 

 Tenebroides mauritanica, 232 

 Tentacle, maxillary, 309, 432 

 Tenthredinidae, parasite of, 4 

 Terebrantia, 531 

 Termites, 203, 206, 227, 231 

 Terrifying attitude, 384 

 Tesseratomides, 546 



Testes, 321, 324, 400, 429 ; in larva, 325' 

 Tetanocera ferrruginea, 504 

 Tetanoceridae, 504 

 Tetragorm, 53, 61 

 Tetramera, 190 



Tetraiiwriini) caespitum, 160, 163 

 Tettigometrides, 567 

 Teucrium, bug and galls on, 550 

 Thais, pupation of, 363 

 Tlmiwos, ;!//.' ; T. tayes, androconia, 332 

 Therevidae, 484 

 Thiridopteryx, 420 

 Thomas, on androconia, 331 

 Thorictidae, 236 

 Tlmrictus, 236 

 Thrips, 526 f. ; Thrips tint, 531 ; T, 



secalina, 530 

 Throscides, 260 



